Kailash Saran

Background

About Kailash Saran

Public health expert with medical background. Expert in Management, Policy advocacy, Program designing, Strong analytical skills, Leadership, Team building, Stakeholders management, • 24+ years of public health experience under challenging environments in diverse roles and agencies including government, UN and INGOs. • Strong strategic and conceptual orientation in policy formulation and implementation i.e. immunization, maternal child health, Family Planning, Reproductive Health, Primary healthcare, nutrition, Health systems strengthening, Advocacy and partnership building, Management and Monitoring evaluation of health programs, Human resource development and financial management. • Over four and half years of clinical experience in a variety of specialties ranging from paediatrics, medicine and family planning to tropical medicine • Efficiently built the strategic relationship with Government Counterparts, Developmental Partners, NGOS and Private Sector to support effective and essential public health care services, implementing desired policies and resource leverages in the States • Strong advocacy for policies based on local and international evidences that are accepted by government counterparts and making necessary changes in policies and integrating changes in existing programs. eight years+ of research experience in different studies KEY ACHIEVEMENTS: • By successful advocacy at Highest-level Chief Minister of Rajasthan and Union Health minister have launched the PPIUCD repositioning program in State of Rajasthan. • Successfully repositioned family planning program in existing health programs • Produced Two day training modules for Health Workers in PPFP Counselling in Hindi which is accepted and adopted by Government of India • Research program on WHO SCC in Rajasthan in which more then births monitored and based on results and local evidence based advocacy translated in the new National health program for IMPROVEMENT OF QUALITY OF CARE AROUND BIRTH named DAKSHTA. SCC Research used by GOI to create a new supervisory visit checklist for labor room and also training program tweaked from 21 days to 3 days. That resulted into the saving of resources and also resulted in optimum use of resources in constrained setting. With focused intervention and strong team with stakeholders MMR of Rajasthan brings down to 113 from 467 in Seven Years.Focused advocacy and helped GOR interventions resulted in Average age of female marriage up from 16.5 Y in 2015 to 21.4 Y in 2023 and it is verified by third party survey.